Building on feedback and experience from prior models, LEAD aims to reduce barriers to success for both new and experienced ...

Only a couple of years ago, it wasn’t uncommon for healthcare experts to call accountable care organizations “unicorns.” Despite the excitement and discussion around the model, few people had seen one ...

Accountable Care Organization stakeholders are applauding the capitation payments in the new ACO Primary Care Flex Model but lament that it leaves out high-revenue ACOs. The Centers for Medicare and ...

Changes announced to ACO REACH model for 2025 and 2026 will disincentivize providers from achieving meaningful improvements across the quintuple aim, according to Gary Jacobs, executive director at ...

Accountable care organizations in the ACO Reach program can claim credit for saving the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hundreds of millions of dollars. ACO Reach participants racked up ...

Editor's note: For more on this topic, stay tuned for the upcoming June issue of Health Affairs, which features a series of articles on accountable care organizations. Accountable care is a relatively ...

The authors describe a 3-step framework for how accountable care organizations (ACOs) can ensure that patients' needs, values, and preferences are incorporated into ACO governance decisions.

The Medicare Shared Savings Program allows healthcare providers to create or participate in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that aim to deliver better healthcare while helping lower costs. The ...

The Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) Model provides the next great opportunity in moving a health care payment system toward paying for value ...

With the push towards health equity and away from a fee-for-service model of healthcare, risk-bearing organizations have an opportunity to join the ACO REACH (Realizing Equity, Access, and Community ...

As accountable care organizations are a new model of care, formally created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, they are constantly evolving and changing.Much has changed even ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program lets healthcare providers form or join Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to coordinate higher-quality care to Medicare beneficiaries while helping reduce costs.